Chapter 14: The Demon Army
Although Hua Xia Jiu had a certain understanding of the general situation in this world, the cultivation method that he wanted to know most was not mentioned in these books.
In Hua Xia Jiu's view, whether or not to solve the problem of eating, drinking, and Lazar and make it look like a human being, in addition to the power of faith, most of them have to find a way from the so-called cultivation and cultivation of the Dao.
Hua Xia Jiu thought as he rode his horse towards the military headquarters of the Steel Tooth Legion.
At this moment, a sharp and penetrating horn suddenly sounded, resounding throughout Heba City.
The next moment, the human beings who had just been walking leisurely in the streets and alleys ran towards the nearby houses with a shout. Although there is panic, there is no chaos. Countless soldiers rushed to the city wall in a nervous and orderly manner under the shouts of the officers. Obviously, this kind of scene is not common in Heba City, but it is not a few.
As soon as Huaxia Jiu thought about it, he knew that it should be the Demon Clan who came to attack Heba City in a big way, maybe it was revenge for the destruction of the Demon Clan's weapon casting base by the human race.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the ground to begin to tremble faintly, and the howls and roars outside the city were faintly heard, and as time passed, the intensity of the tremors and the movement of the beast's roar became louder and louder. And a dark cloud in the northwest sky quickly drifted towards Heba City.
Without thinking too much, Hua Xia Jiu turned his horse's head and galloped towards the city wall.
When Hua Xia Jiu stepped on the city wall, the archers, pikemen, slingers, heavy crossbowmen and other troops of the Steel Tooth Legion on the city wall had already formed a battle formation, and the two steel thick gates at the city gate had also been lowered.
Hua Xia Jiu looked out of the city, and ten miles away from Heba City, thousands of beasts of all kinds rushed towards Heba City like a desperate person.
Beast Tide -
The nine eyes of Huaxia are far superior to ordinary humans, and the beast tide is mixed with a variety of ferocious beasts, including wild cattle, wolves, porcupines and other beasts that are good at living in groups, as well as dozens of tigers, nearly 100 bears, cheetahs and other fierce beasts, as well as a larger number of squirrels, poisonous snakes, etc. These animals, which are usually impossible to get along peacefully, run together without aggression at this time, forming such a strange scene.
And above the sky, eagles, vultures and other ferocious wild birds covered the northwest half of the sky, and they also roared and rushed towards Heba City, the speed was much faster than the beasts on the ground, and it was only about five miles away from Heba City at this time.
All the beasts were terrified, and they had clearly lost their minds, and had become extremely manic and aggressive, but it was as if there was something behind them that made all the beasts extremely frightened, so that they only ran forward and ran for their lives, and did not attack the beasts around them, even if they met each other's natural enemies.
Hua Xia Jiu looked beyond the beast tide into the distance, and thousands of beast-headed human bodies, or monster clans with strange human heads and beast bodies, followed closely behind the beast tide, constantly emitting roars that shocked the beasts and made them terrified.
The Steel Tooth Legion is obviously trained in an orderly manner and has rich combat experience, at this time all preparations on the city wall are in place, countless military flags are swaggering in the morning breeze, knives are unsheathed, spears are pointed forward, bows and arrows are full of rings, heavy crossbows are raised, and everyone is staring at the rapidly approaching beast tide in the distance, so there is silence on the city wall. Then the sound of the beast's hooves falling to the ground and the chaotic roaring and howling of the beast became clearer, like a chaotic thunder and the howl of death, which fell on everyone's ears and beat on everyone's hearts.
A chaotic, cruel and bloody aura rushed straight to Heba City.
In the time of ten breaths, eagles, vultures and other fierce birds in mid-air were already very close to Heba Town.
500 meters...... 400 meters...... 300 meters......
Hua Xia Jiu secretly calculated in his mind.
"All archers and heavy crossbow arrows aim at the ferocious birds and fire!!"
Nearly a hundred meters away from Huaxia Jiu, Xu Jianhong's face was hideous, and he gave an order.
Whizzing and swishing sounded in the air, and thousands of arrows shot out, covering all the fierce birds. Hundreds of crossbow arrows were lightning fast, piercing into the flock of fierce birds one step ahead of bows and arrows.
The archers are obviously selected to be powerful, and the accuracy is extremely high, plus the fierce birds are frightened by the wolf demon not far behind them, and their flexibility and reaction in the panic have been reduced, so at a distance of more than two hundred meters, most of the thousands of bows and arrows have no arrows. Although the number of heavy crossbows is scarce, because of their great strength, they often run out of strength when a crossbow arrow pierces through three or four fierce birds.
Therefore, the next moment, the fierce bird in mid-air fell to the ground with a bang like a dumpling in the pot.
The attack on the fierce birds was as much as half, but with this round of time buffer, the remaining fierce birds were nearly two hundred meters away from Heba City, and the beast tide on the ground was also about five hundred meters away.
"Bows and arrows and crossbow arrows attack fierce birds with all their might. The catapult is ready to be launched!" Xu Jianhong's calm and cold voice sounded again.
Whoosh Whoosh
Boom Boom
For a while, arrows flew all over the sky in mid-air, and the head-sized boulder crossed the top of everyone's heads and smashed into the beast tide, the weight of the boulder, the strength of the trebuchet blessing on the boulder, and the gravitational potential energy that fell from the highest point, making the boulder extremely lethal, all the beasts that were hit, no matter how strong the defense was, most of them were killed on the spot, even if a few beasts were lucky enough to escape the vital point, but they were also mutilated, and were trampled into flesh by the beast tide behind.
At this time, the archers had already divided into two rounds and took turns shooting, making sure that there was no time gap as much as possible.
When the first round of bows and arrows was fired, Hua Xia Jiu took the longbow he carried with him and joined in the shooting of the fierce birds. Since he had already promised Xu Jianhong to join the Steel Fang Legion, he naturally would not stand idly by in this scene, not to mention that this was a war between humans and demon beasts.
After a few breaths, many fierce birds in mid-air fell with arrows, and hundreds of head wave beasts died tragically outside the city.
At the same time that Hua Xia Jiu shot one arrow from the archer, he had already shot five or six arrows, and the arrow passed through his throat, and the speed was amazing.
At this time, there were less than a hundred fierce birds in the air, but they were also a hundred meters away from Heba City, and they could rush to the city at the speed of two or three breaths.
The next round of archers was ready, and they shot out again with a whooshing sound, and at such a short distance, the fierce birds could hardly dodge, and they crackled and fell to the ground, leaving only a dozen or so fierce birds in mid-air. But at this time, it was only more than forty meters away from the city wall, and it was seen that a single dive could rush up the city wall, causing chaos and casualties to the Steel Fang Legion, and the next round of archers had not yet completed a series of archery preparations.
At the same time, in the battle formation of the army on the city wall, dozens of low-ranking officers with eyes like knives, powerful breath, and armor and clothing that were obviously different from ordinary sergeants were about to jump up when their swords were unsheathed.
Between the lightning and flint, in the swishing sound, behind everyone, one arrow after another was extremely fast, the interval was extremely short, and at an absolutely uniform speed, it shot out, and in the blink of an eye, two or three fierce birds fell from the arrow. And the arrows did not stop, and more than a dozen were shot in one go.
When the last fierce bird flew over the city wall, it was also pierced through the throat by an arrow with a whoosh, and smashed down on the city wall with a snap.
In an instant, there was silence on the city wall of Huaxia Jiu, except for the sergeant who was manipulating the giant crossbow arrows and catapults, everyone couldn't help but look at the place where the arrows were shot just now.
"All ferocious birds are an arrow through the throat—" the sharp-eyed officer whispered.
The situation on the battlefield did not allow everyone to do anything other than war, so although everyone was shocked by the speed of Huaxia Jiu's archery, they only took a look, and then continued to devote themselves to shooting the beasts under the city.
Not far away, Xu Jianhong took a deep look at Hua Xia Jiu, who was expressionless, holding a bow and arrow and began to shoot the beast tide under the city, and was also shocked in his heart, and couldn't help but secretly wonder: "I didn't feel any energy fluctuations, could it just rely on the strength of my body." ”
Although the beast tide under the city is huge, the momentum is amazing, and there are a large number of beasts, but after all, they did not come on their own, but were driven by the demon clan behind them and rushed forward in panic. At this time, when the human army was killed, the strong city wall blocked, and there was no way out, the survival instinct of the beast finally made it gradually come back to its senses, and with more than half of the dead and wounded, regardless of the aura of fear behind him, they turned to flee from both sides.
Although the beast tide dispersed, the expressions of the human army on the city wall became more and more solemn, and they stared at the nearly ten thousand figures and levitating above the heads of these figures that were exposed as the beast tide dispersed.
The nearly 10,000 figures are pitiful compared to the beast tide composed of hundreds of thousands of beasts just now, but the bloody and violent killing momentum shown from them is incomparable, and I don't know how many times stronger.
The demonic aura was soaring, and the murderous aura was like a tide, stretching towards Heba City.
Roar――――
An earth-shattering roar came from behind thousands of demon clans.
When the Legion of Steel Teeth heard the roar on the city wall, their hearts couldn't help but be shocked, and everyone's heart was pounding like a drum! This kind of natural coercion that overrode the rules of the race! This kind of breath crushing like a higher creature facing a lower creature with a crushing feeling! This feeling as if encountering a natural enemy.
And the low-strength and weak-willed ordinary residents in the city were even more paralyzed to the ground, their faces pale.
For a time, except for a very small number of high-ranking officers such as Xu Jianhong, who relied on their strong martial will, they dispelled the fear in their hearts and did not suffer much impact, and other soldiers and low-level officers lost their combat power in a short period of time.
And as soon as this loud roar fell, nearly 10,000 demon clans roared almost simultaneously and rushed towards Heba City, and as they ran, they had already turned into their original forms.
For a while, several times larger than ordinary beasts, the giant wolf more than three meters long, the five-meter-long tiger, the seven or eight-meter-tall giant ape and other terrifying figures rushed towards Heba City with all their might.
The speed of the original form of the demons was naturally different from that of ordinary beasts, and in a few breaths, they had already traveled five hundred meters, and they were less than a hundred meters away from the city wall. At this time, the human army, which was shocked by the loud roar, gradually got rid of its frightened heart, and under the loud shouts of officers at all levels, they raised their bows and arrows, picked up their spears and began to shoot wildly at the city. Giant heavy crossbows and catapults began to rumble down the city. However, due to the attack on the beast tide just now, the strength of the soldiers operating the equipment was consumed a lot, coupled with the impact of the roar just now, both the strength of the arrows and the accuracy of the arrows have decreased more or less.
Therefore, the results achieved in the attack were pitiful, which made the morale of the demon army soar and the roar became even more arrogant.